Strange Likeness: The Use of Old English in Twentieth-Century PoetryOUP Oxford, 07.09.2006 - 276 Seiten Strange Likeness provides the first full account of how Old English (or Anglo-Saxon) was rediscovered by twentieth-century poets, and the uses to which they put that discovery in their own writing. Chapters deal with Ezra Pound, W. H. Auden, Edwin Morgan, and Seamus Heaney. Stylistic debts to Old English are examined, along with the effects on these poets' work of specific ideas about Old English language and literature as taught while these poets were studying the subject at university. Issues such as linguistic primitivism, the supposed 'purity' of the English language, the politics and ethics of translation, and the construction of 'Englishness' within the literary canon are discussed in the light of these poets and their Old English encounters. Heaney's translation of Beowulf is fully contextualized within the body of the rest of his work for the first time. |
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... Dream of the Rood into The Anathemata. See David Jones, In Parenthesis (London: Faber, 1937), 54, and TheAnathernata (London: Faber, 1952), 146, 159, 240. principles of Old English verse.24 Part II of 'Briggflats' even 12 Introduction.
... Dream of the Rood into The Anathemata. See David Jones, In Parenthesis (London: Faber, 1937), 54, and TheAnathernata (London: Faber, 1952), 146, 159, 240. principles of Old English verse.24 Part II of 'Briggflats' even 12 Introduction.
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... Dream of the Rood as 'northern poems', remark— ing, 'I think our best hope of an art or literature of our own does not lie in imitating what has come to us from Rome or Europe or from the South ofEngland, but in trying to dis— cern what ...
... Dream of the Rood as 'northern poems', remark— ing, 'I think our best hope of an art or literature of our own does not lie in imitating what has come to us from Rome or Europe or from the South ofEngland, but in trying to dis— cern what ...
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... Dream of the Rood and 85 lines of Elene (unless by 'Cynewulf' Pound means not the poet, but the tale of 'Cynewulf and Cyneheard' from The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, the first text of all in Sweet's selection). College notes made on 31 ...
... Dream of the Rood and 85 lines of Elene (unless by 'Cynewulf' Pound means not the poet, but the tale of 'Cynewulf and Cyneheard' from The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, the first text of all in Sweet's selection). College notes made on 31 ...
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Inhalt
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17 | |
Auden and the Barbaric Poetry of the North | 68 |
Dredging the WhaleRoads | 122 |
Seamus Heaneythe Caedmon of The North | 182 |
Old EnglishA Shadow Poetry? | 238 |
Appendix on Old English Metre | 245 |
Bibliography | 247 |
Index | 261 |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
2nd edn alliteration alliterative allusion Anglo-Saxon Anglo-Saxon Reader archaism Auden Beinecke Beowulf C. S. Lewis Caedmon caesura Canto Celtic century compound conflict contemporary cultural defining dialect Dobbie Dream early edition Edwin Morgan elegy English literature Essays Exeter Book Ezra Pound Ezra Pound Papers Faber falling rhythms figure final find first five Fuller Germanic Grendel Grendel’s half-line Heaney’s heroic History I/Wznderer ibid idiom influence Irish kenning kind linguistic literary London medieval metaphor metre Middle English Modern English Morgan’s narrative Norse North ofhis ofits ofthe Old English poems Old English poetry Old English verse one’s Orators original Oxford passage pattern perhaps phrase poem’s poet poet’s poetic Pound’s Seafarer prose refer reflecting rhythmical Robinson Rune Poem Saxon Saxonesque Saxonist Scots Scottish Seamus Heaney seems sense significant speaker specific stanza strange stressed syllables suggests Sweet syntactic syntax tion tradition trans translation twentieth-century unstressed variation verb words writing